In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God--the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-- ripped. One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God. A beautiful idea. But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.